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Carkeet, David was born on November 15, 1946 in Sonora, California, United States. Son of Ross Albert and Mary Bevans (Hill) Carkeet.
( Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he d...)
Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works. Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works. In fact, he is strangely hostile to the institution. So Cook is naturally uneasy about his job with the Pillow Agency, a St. Louis firm specializing in "the linguistically troubled marriage." His assignment is to move in with Dan and Beth Wilson, a prosperous suburban couple with an impoverished relationship, to analyze their verbal problems and help them-if he can. As Cook catalogs the Wilsons' missed signs and missed signals, he becomes increasingly, most unscientifically, involved.
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(Double Carkeet. Features two mysteries by David Carkeet. ...)
Double Carkeet. Features two mysteries by David Carkeet. In Double Negative, the Wabash Institute is dedicated to studying verbal skills in toddlers, but its scholars are far crankier than the rugrats they work with. When one of them is murdered, can their resident genius solve the case without canceling himself out? In From Away, a model train buff is stranded in a wintry Vermont town after his one-night stand walks out on him. Good thing the villagers think he's a native son who disappeared three years ago. Because that one-night stand just turned up dead!
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( A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR The Edgar A...)
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR The Edgar Award nominated classic-"intelligent, unpredictable...and extraordinarily funny" (San Francisco Chronicle) Dedicated to the study of toddlers and their development of verbal skills, the Wabash Institute should be staffed by kind, gentle scholars-instead, the center is home to a nest of supremely cranky academics. When one of them is bludgeoned to death, Jeremy Cook-the Institute's premier scholar and the novel's socially clueless hero-becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name, Cook resolves to solve the case, even if it means taking time off from his hobby of teaching imaginary words to the Institute's tiny "subjects." While gleefully skewering academia, Carkeet-a professor of linguistics-also provides a spectacularly ingenious puzzle. "Mystery stories that have a really original solution to the crime are very rare," said the New York Times Book Review, "but Dr. Carkeet has found one."
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Carkeet, David was born on November 15, 1946 in Sonora, California, United States. Son of Ross Albert and Mary Bevans (Hill) Carkeet.
Bachelor of Arts California, Davis, 1968. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1973.
Assistant professor, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1973-1979; associate professor, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1979-1987; professor, U. Missouri, St. Louis, since 1987.
( A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR The Edgar A...)
( Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he d...)
(Book is in great condition, pages are clean)
(Double Carkeet. Features two mysteries by David Carkeet. ...)
Married Barbara Sue Lubin, August 16, 1975. Children: Laurie, Anne, Molly.